EP0309155B1 - Method for determining physical properties - Google Patents
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- EP0309155B1 EP0309155B1 EP88308551A EP88308551A EP0309155B1 EP 0309155 B1 EP0309155 B1 EP 0309155B1 EP 88308551 A EP88308551 A EP 88308551A EP 88308551 A EP88308551 A EP 88308551A EP 0309155 B1 EP0309155 B1 EP 0309155B1
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- B02—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING; PREPARATORY TREATMENT OF GRAIN FOR MILLING
- B02C—CRUSHING, PULVERISING, OR DISINTEGRATING IN GENERAL; MILLING GRAIN
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- G01N—INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- G01N29/00—Investigating or analysing materials by the use of ultrasonic, sonic or infrasonic waves; Visualisation of the interior of objects by transmitting ultrasonic or sonic waves through the object
- G01N29/04—Analysing solids
- G01N29/045—Analysing solids by imparting shocks to the workpiece and detecting the vibrations or the acoustic waves caused by the shocks
- G01N29/046—Analysing solids by imparting shocks to the workpiece and detecting the vibrations or the acoustic waves caused by the shocks using the echo of particles imparting on a surface; using acoustic emission of particles
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- This invention relates to a method for non-intrusively determining the physical properties of material in a mill during size reduction operations (comminution).
- Comminution of solid materials, particularly minerals, is a frequently preformed operation. For instance, some mineral ores are crushed and ground prior to extraction of the metal, pigments before addition to paints, and coal is similarly treated prior to combustion in large scale industrial furnaces.
- Equipment used during comminution is generally classified in three categories, coarse mills such as jaw crushers, intermediate mills such as disc crushers and hammer mills, and fine mills such as roller mills of the type described in DE-A-3219647, ball mills and rod mills.
- a non-intrusive method for the determination of the value of a physical property of the material within a mill during the comminution of solid material within the mill which method comprises the steps of:
- the analogue electrical signal can be amplified and/or passed through a band-pass filter to remove frequencies above, say, 10 KHz to prevent aliasing, and below, say, 50 Hz to remove spurious low frequency signals.
- the digital band pass filter is preferably capable of selecting from two to twenty four desired frequency bands.
- the properties which may be determined include those variables which fully characterise the material in a mill, namely, the particle size distribution of the solid particles and, when wet milling is employed, the pulp density (solid: liquid ratio) and the pulp volume (volume of solid and liquid). Other parameters of interest may be calculated from these.
- Suitable multivariate statistical techniques are the methods of principal components analysis (PC) and partial least squares (PLS).
- PC analysis is a numerical technique which allows multivariate data to be displayed in two dimensions for ease of interpretation.
- the PC's are all orthogonal and equal in number to the measured features.
- the coefficients of the vectors are calculated so that most of the variance in the data is expressed in the first few PC's whilst the relative magnitude of the coefficient reflects the discriminatory power of the original features.
- PLS analysis allows the relationship between sets of data (which are related or where it is expected that a relationship exists) to be empiricially modelled.
- Two ′training sets′ of data in this case particle size distribution and AE (Acoustic Emission) frequency distribution
- AE Acoustic Emission
- ′Test sets′ of data acquired under the same conditions but not used to build the model, are then input. Where actual values are known, the errors between these and the values generated are used to validate the accuracy of the model's predictions. If one set is unknown PLS is able to predict values from knowledge of the other, using the model.
- the method is applicable to any type of milling machine including batch machines and continuous machines where mill efficiency is influenced by the amount and particle size distribution of the feed material. It is particularly suitable for use with ball mills.
- Figure 1 is a schematic diagram of apparatus for use in the method according to the present invention.
- sharp sand was ground in a batch British Rema 0.61 m diameter ⁇ 0.92 m length ball mill 1 driven by an electric motor 2.
- the grinding medium was 16 mm diameter steel balls, filling (including voids) about 40% of the mill volume.
- the sound intensity of grinding was picked up by a flat frequency response audio-microphone 3. This had a Bruel and Kjaer, Type 4165 cartridge and a Type UA0308 dehumidifier and was mounted in a fixed position close to the mill. It had a flat ( ⁇ 1dB) frequency response up to 10 KHz.
- the amplified signals were then analysed by a third octave analyser 6 (Data Beta, DBDTO-10).
- Data Beta Data Beta, DBDTO-10
- This comprises an analogue-to-digital converter 7 front-ended with a 12.5 KHz low pass anti-aliasing filter 5, a digital band-pass filter 8, a central processing unit (CPU) 9 and an RS-232 serial line interface 10.
- the band-pass filter uses a series of digital filters to divide the region 50 Hz to 10 KHz into 24 bands. The centre frequencies of these bands are listed in Table 1.
- the analyser averages the power in each of these bands for a specified period. In all cases 10 seconds averaging times were used.
- the system is controlled by an IBM PC-AT computer 11 linked to the serial line 10 by means of a cable 12.
- Frequency data was analysed using a multivariate statistical technique implemented on the microcomputer 11.
- the mill was filled to the 120% level (100% full is defined as completely filling the voids between the balls) with a sharp-sand/water mixture (sand 40% by volume). As the milling progressed the mill was stopped at 5 minute intervals and a measured volume of pulp was removed from the mill. This effectively reduced the volume while not affecting the density. On reaching a pulp volume of 90%, aliquots of water were added to the mill, with the effect of increasing the pulp volume and reducing the pulp density (eventually to 119% & 25% respectively).
- the samples of slurry removed from the mill were used to estimate the particle size distribution and pulp density. Particle size measurements were made using a combination of sieving, for particle diameters ranging from 125 to 1000 microns, and a Malvern (laser diffraction) sizer for sub-125 micron particles. Percentage undersize by weight was determined for 12 particle diameters (1000, 500, 250, 125, 87.2, 53.5, 28.1, 16.7, 10.1, 6.2, 3.8 and 1.9 microns).
- the particle size distribution in the mill mainly influences the overall amplitude of the acoustic emission. As the particle size is reduced the acoustic emission increases in amplitude. This increase is more pronounced in the higher frequency bands. This is illustrated by the results from experiment 6 in which the pulp volume and density were held constant ( Figure 2) and the particle size decreased with time. As comminution progressed acoustic power increased across the whole of the frequency range ( Figure 3).
- Audio noise produced by a ball mill appears to be largely due to collisions between the balls and between balls and the mill liner.
- the presence of mineral particles reduce the impact velocity of the balls, the larger particles having the greater effect.
- Changing the volume of material in the mill has two effects on the acoustic frequency distribution. Firstly, as the volume is increased the overall emission intensity decreases. Secondly, the acoustic power shifts to lower frequencies.
- Principal components analysis was used to investigate the multivariate acoustic emission data. Sixteen acoustic features were selected, where features 1 to 15 corresponded to the power in each of the 3rd octave bands shown in Table 1. The 16th feature was a combination of the remaining 8 (312 to 49 Hz) third octaves.
- Figure 10 shows how the acoustic data collected from batch experiments 1 to 5 was distributed. The numbers represent individual power spectra obtained at different times during the batch experiment.
- Principal component (PC) 1 which accounts for most of the variance in the data, is a measure of the amplitude of the acoustic emission.
- PC 2 is a measure of the mean frequency of the signal. The change in direction at the top of the plot corresponds to a reverse in frequency shift direction and is associated with lower acoustic power conditions. This suggests that for quantitative analysis, ideally, two models should be used to cover the full range of mill operating conditions.
- FIG. 11-13 A comparison of the PLS predictions of the pulp volume, pulp density and the measured particle size distribution are shown graphically in Figures 11-13.
- Figures 11 and 12 shown ten particle size distributions for particle diameters ranging from 250 to 1.9 microns. (The joining of the points on these graphs has no mathematical significance and is merely a visual aid).
- the PLS predictions for the particle size distributions compare well with those obtained by sieving and laser diffraction.
- Figure 13 shows the PLS prediction of pulp volume and pulp density compared with those values which have been calculated and measured respectively.
- the batch ball mill of experiments 1-6 was replaced by a continuous feed 0.6 m diameter ⁇ 1.0 m length mill.
- the grinding medium was a mixture of steel balls ranging in size from 25 to 70 mm.
- a quartz ore was selected for study.
- the experimental strategy was similar to that of the batch experiments in that a wide range of milling conditions was investigated, this time by controlling solid feed and water flow rates. Samples of slurry were taken at regular intervals for pulp density and particle size measurement. Acoustic data was sampled continuously during the operation of the mill.
- Figures 14 and 15 illustrate how particle size and specific gravity changed during milling.
- the mill was operated over a wide range of conditions to see whether the acoustic spectra were influenced by milling parameters in a similar manner to batch acoustic spectra. As expected, this was indeed the case.
- acoustic spectra show similar trands in amplitude and frequency to those observed in the batch experiments.
- the dominant bands have shifted to lower frequencies (band 11, 1 KHz).
- the second peak (bands 19, 20) at 150 Hz was not influenced significantly by the milling conditions and was subsequently found to originate in the gearbox driving the mill.
- the third octave filtering system consists of a bank of band-pass filters, the centre frequencies being arranged so that there are 3 filters in each octave.
- the output from each of the band-pass filters is squared and passed into an averager.
- This averager accumulates the data for a specified averaging time and passes this data to the computer.
- D1 and D5 are the initial and final %vol Sand in each experiment (D2-D4 are selected intermediate values)
- V1 and V5 are the initial and final percentage of ′optimal volume′ of material in the mill (V2-V4 are selected intermediate values).
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EP0309155A2 (en) | 1989-03-29 |
BR8804881A (pt) | 1989-04-25 |
JP2798935B2 (ja) | 1998-09-17 |
DE3865938D1 (de) | 1991-12-05 |
ES2027012T3 (es) | 1992-05-16 |
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